An Entertainment Technology Company

creating next-generation solutions for content producers and cinemas

Who
We Are

Comprised of leaders with decades of experience and deep, trusted relationships in the entertainment industry, MetaMedia is focused on creating next-generation content delivery and new revenue-generating opportunities for content producers and cinemas.

When the film and entertainment industry first transitioned from analog to digital 15 years ago, technological constraints left the transition incomplete. Today’s widespread, high-speed broadband and cloud capabilities allow us to fulfill the promises of the first digital revolution in cinema and film distribution. Now, MetaMedia and its leadership team of executives from top cinemas, studios and technology companies is producing a new generation of game-changing technological advances and solutions for content producers and cinemas around the world.

MetaMedia Presents

the world’s first global, cloud-based distribution platform for out-of-home venues

What We
Do

The MetaMedia Entertainment NetworkTM is the world's first global, cloud-based content distribution network for cinemas. This revolutionary platform offers the ultra-secure, rapid and cost-effective delivery of movies, trailers, live-streamed events and other big-screen programming and revenue-generating opportunities to cinemas.

Services

  • Content Delivery
  • Live Event Streaming
  • Marketing Asset Delivery
  • New Opportunities

Content Delivery

Secure, cost-effective, targeted delivery of feature films and other content for cinemas.

Live Event Streaming

Streaming capability provides new revenue opportunities from sports, music, and live event programming.

Marketing Asset Delivery

Easy and targeted delivery of trailers and digital assets (such as digital one sheets, standees, and other artwork).

New Theatre Advertising Opportunities

Improved targeting from programming and increased ad inventory provided by major existing theatre advertising companies.

Company

Leadership

Jason Brenek

Chief Executive Officer

Danny C. Stein

Chairman

Chuck Goldwater

President, North America

Shaiwal “Shay” Priyadarshi

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

News

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MetaMedia Appoints Kristin Kielpinski Cinema and Event Programming Leader as Senior Executive

August 27, 2024

Kielpinski Brings Significant Experience in Event Cinema Programming, Exhibitor Relations, and Distribution Strategy  LOS ANGELES – MetaMedia, the world’s first cloud-based...

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MetaMedia’s Customer Base Grows To 30 Top North American Cinema Chains With the Addition of 150 New Cinemas Under Contract

April 2, 2024

Cloud-based Delivery Platform Enables Cinemas, Studios and Other Content Producers to Create Dynamic Fan-Based Events and Target Audience Segments LOS ANGELES – With the...

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Jason Brenek

Chief Executive Officer

Leveraging two decades of senior executive experience across multiple sectors of the film and entertainment industry, Jason Brenek assembled a group of powerful industry leaders with incomparable experience and relationships to forge the building blocks of MetaMedia. As Chief Executive Officer of MetaMedia, Brenek focuses intently on realizing the operational, economic and programming benefits of creating a next-generation distribution network, which are mutually-beneficial to content producers and cinemas around the world.

Prior to MetaMedia, Brenek was President of IMAX HOME at the IMAX Corporation, where he led business and engineering teams around the world to develop and launch multiple new products, technologies, and platforms. Before IMAX, Brenek spent over a decade in senior management roles at The Walt Disney Studios. While serving as Senior Vice President of International In-Home and Head of Global Business Development and Strategic Partnerships, Brenek established partnerships with global brands including Netflix, Google, Amazon, Apple. and Samsung to distribute Disney-owned content across new digital/OTT platforms, television, and retail. Brenek previously served as Disney's Senior Vice President of Worldwide Digital Cinema and Cinema Programming, overseeing the company's global transition from analog to digital cinema. Brenek also developed and co-produced two Disney feature films and multiple live sporting events in cinemas with ESPN. Brenek received his Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and his Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin.

Danny C. Stein

Chairman

Danny Stein is a seasoned, growth-oriented media and technology executive with 30 years of operating and investment experience across media, technology, and consumer businesses. Stein has managed across the full life-cycle of deal origination, deal execution, business building and exit for small and mid- cap public, private and distressed companies. Stein is a digital media innovator having built a portfolio of businesses as CEO of Dimensional Associates 2003-2014, including as the Executive Chairman of the Orchard Enterprises, a global music and entertainment company, specializing in media distribution and 1091 Pictures, a digital and theatrical distribution company. From 2015-2016, Stein was the Senior Vice President, Growth Investments of MacAndrews and Forbes Holdings, Inc., a company that acquires and manages a diversified portfolio of public and private companies across various industry segments.  In that role, Stein’s focus was on building and investing in digital media and technology-enabled businesses. Through MacAndrews and Forbes, Stein also served as President of New Media and Corporate Development at Deluxe Entertainment (a wholly owned subsidiary of MacAndrews of Forbes), responsible for Corporate Development, M&A, Strategy, Digital Media and Innovation.

Chuck Goldwater

President, North America

For over two decades, Chuck Goldwater has served as a senior executive in the entertainment and cinema exhibition industry which has earned him incomparable industry-wide trust and respect. As President, North America for MetaMedia, Goldwater draws upon his broad understanding and deep connections to exhibitors and studios across the country to create a robust network of exhibitor and studio partnerships for MetaMedia. He also applies his knack and experience for building successful entertainment startups to MetaMedia's growing infrastructure and success.

Prior to MetaMedia, Goldwater was co-founder and CEO at cinema chain New Vision Theaters. Before that, Goldwater served as Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Carmike Cinemas, which acquired Digiplex Destinations, a cinema chain where Goldwater served as Executive Vice President and a member of the Board of Directors. At New Vision, Carmike, and Digiplex, Goldwater was an energetic and effective advocate for alternative programming and “event cinema” as a means of increasing seat utilization and creating incremental revenue for exhibitors. Before Digiplex, Goldwater was President of Cinedigm (formerly known as AccessIT), the company credited with deploying the first digital cinema infrastructure and electronic delivery network. Previously, Goldwater was selected by the then seven largest Hollywood studios to serve as Chief Executive Officer of Digital Cinema Initiatives (“DCI”), a joint venture that created the industry-wide specifications and the technical quality and security architecture for digital cinema systems. Goldwater was also inducted into the industry’s ShowEast Hall of Fame and is a Will Rogers/Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation Board Advisory Member.

Shaiwal “Shay” Priyadarshi

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

A dynamic inventor with over a dozen patents, Shaiwal "Shay" Priyadarshi is a trusted leader and mentor to high-performing tech teams, executives and business partners. For over 25 years, Priyadarshi has assembled and led front-end and back-end engineering teams, developed market-leading products and intellectual property that spans from embedded systems and data centers to leading cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud. As chief technology officer (CTO) for MetaMedia, Priyadarshi continues to maintain his exemplary track record of overseeing innovative products from concept to delivery.

Prior to MetaMedia, Priyadarshi was CTO of IMAX Home, where he developed the world's highest-quality, internet-delivered video playback system needed to support IMAX Corporation’s pioneering technologies. Before IMAX, he served as CTO of PRIMA Cinema where he led the research, development and approval processes of the world's first and only movie service that was authorized to distribute new Hollywood movies to private home theaters. And previous to PRIMA Cinema, he worked as director of engineering at DivX, where he led the development of new technologies that power many leading streaming services today. Priyadarshi received his Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Electronics from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.